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Anything new, from The Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, filming in
India, to just plain interesting stuff.
Producers Khashyar Darvich and David Mueller ("Farewell to Rumi" Producer) is
producing and directing a documentary about Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Mildren Norman
Ryder ("Peace Pilgrim"), who walked over 25,000 miles across America from 1953
until she died in 1981. A truly remarkable woman who was selected and placed on the cover
of the Library of Congress calendar of "Women Who Dare."
- You can learn more about "Peace Pilgrim" by going to the "Friends of
Peace Pilgrim" website at: www.peacepilgrim.com
- Most of the filming has already taken place, with editing scheduled to begin in October.
- This very important documentary should be finished by the end of 1999.
- Dennis Aig is a consulting producer on the documentary.
- Philip Glass, America’s most well-known living composer, has
offered some of his music to the Peace Pilgrim documentary. Glass has written the scores
for several films including "A Brief History in Time," "A Thin Blue
Line," "Powaqqatsi," "Koyaanisqatsi," and many others.
- Some of the interviews that we have already filmed for the Peace Pilgrim documentary
include: Actor and activist Dennis Weaver (star of "McCloud,"
"Gunsmoke," "Duel" (Speilburg’s first film), "Lonesome
Dove" and dozens of other movies); John Robbins (international best-selling
author of "A Diet for a New America"); author Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (
author of "Death and Dying," and world renowned for identifying the emotional
stages of dying); Dr. Robert Muller (former Assistant Secretary General of the UN,
and Chancellor of the UN’s University for Peace in Costa Rico); Author Gerald
Jampolsky (best-selling author of "Love is letting Go of Fear," and
"Teach only Love,"); Dan Millman (author of "Way of the Peaceful
Warrior"); Dr. Vincent Harding (friend of M.L.K, civil rights scholar, and one
of the early leaders of the civil rights movement); and Evrett Loomis (one of the
pioneers of holistic medicine-- he coined the spelling of holistic with a
"holi"). Other celebrities also should be interviewed fairly soon.
- We are scheduled to conduct an interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner, His Holiness the
Dalai Lama, this summer.
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